"The Centre of the Heart" was released as the lead single from "Room Service" 17 years ago today! 🎶 One of the hottest Roxette videos ever? 🔥 /PP
Stills are from the video, directed by Jonas Åkerlund: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttOvEpqem0

Do you have any favourite Roxette songs you want to hear live on the Per Gessle's Roxette tour? Pls, let me know. I'm all ears. Got a few up my sleeve but would love to hear your point of view. Have a great weekend y'all! /P.

Do you have any favourite Roxette songs you want to hear live on the Per Gessle's Roxette tour? Pls, let me know. I'm all ears. Got a few up my sleeve but would love to hear your point of view. Have a great weekend y'all! /P.

Do you have any favourite Roxette songs you want to hear live on the Per Gessle's Roxette tour? Pls, let me know. I'm all ears. Got a few up my sleeve but would love to hear your point of view. Have a great weekend y'all! /P.

Do you have any favourite Roxette songs you want to hear live on the Per Gessle's Roxette tour? Pls, let me know. I'm all ears. Got a few up my sleeve but would love to hear your point of view. Have a great weekend y'all! /P.

Hello everyone. I just want you to know I'm so looking forward to the release of my new Small Town Talk-album as well as the PER GESSLE'S ROXETTE-tour. Tcts to most venues will be available from tomorrow, Friday March 16. New dice. Let's dig into the Rox-vaults! Welcome! /P.

Listen to a short phone interview with Per Gessle about the upcoming tour on P4 Halland. PG: "I will not try to replace Marie, but just play Roxette songs. The alternative would be not playing them at all, and that would be terribly sad." /PP
Listen to the interview here: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=128&artikel=6906849

Gessle tours Europe with Roxettes music!
Good news for European fans of Swedish super group and classic hit makers Roxette—the duo’s songwriter Per Gessle is embarking on a European tour focusing on the mighty Roxette song catalogue this autumn.
The group’s charismatic singer, Marie Fredriksson, announced her withdrawal from touring due to health problems in the spring of 2016, shortly before the release of the group’s tenth studio album, “Good Karma”.
When faced with this situation, Gessle decided to channel his energy into writing material for a Swedish solo project recorded in Nashville later that year. The recordings were made with long-time Swedish musical partners Christoffer Lundquist, Clarence Öfwerman, Anders Herrlin and Helena Josefsson, coupled with a long list of top-league American session players.
Mixing parts of the Roxette touring band with new musicians, Gessle in the summer of 2017 toured Sweden in support of the first of two mini albums from the Nashville sessions, “En vacker natt” (“A Beautiful Night”).
Violin and mandolin player Malin-My Wall, drummer Andreas Dahlbäck and Ola Gustafsson on pedal steel, mandolin and guitar added a fresh touch of Americana, which merged seamlessly with the seasoned Roxette musicians Christoffer Lundquist (guitar), Clarence Öfwerman (keyboards), Magnus Börjeson (bass) and Helena Josefsson (backing vocals).
Both the tour and the Nashville recorded album were enthusiastically received for adding new perspective and depth to Gessle’s music.
- I loved playing with this band, and then it hit me—what if we could do a similar thing dedicated to Roxette music. With Marie unable to perform, all those songs would just gather dust and I was thrilled by the idea of hearing this band performing them, Per Gessle says.
- Marie of course is irreplaceable, he adds. But she sends her blessings, and we both think that this could be a great way to keep the songs fresh by playing them with a slightly different twist in front of all those wonderful people that has been following us through the years.
Gessle emphasizes that the band is able to cover all aspects of Roxette music; from the hook-laden power-pop hits to the mighty ballads that still gets heavy rotation on classic pop radio all over the world. And he promises to dig deep in his song-vault for some surprises as well.
- Yeah, that’s really the fun part of it—I love playing the big hits like “The Look”, “Listen To Your Heart”, “It Must Have Been Love”, “Joyride” and “How Do You Do!”, but a tour like this is also a great opportunity to rediscover some of the great, but lesser played, songs and find out what we can make of them. Just wait and see…
Dubbed “Per Gessle’s Roxette”, a European tour covering ten countries kicks off in Hamburg, Germany, on October 11. An English album -“Small Town Talk”- featuring material from the Nashville sessions (including a duet with British pop maestro Nick Lowe) as well as new recordings with the touring band, will be released internationally to coincide with the tour.
The tour will include the following stops:
11.10 Hamburg, Laeiszhalle (GER)
12.10 Bryssel, Ancienne Belgique (BEL)
15.10 London, Hammersmith Apollo (GBR)
16.10 Manchester, Apollo (GBR)
18.10 Wien, Stadthalle F (AUT)
19.10 Zurich, Halle 622 (SUI)
21.10 Warszawa, Stodola (POL)
22.10 Berlin, Admiralspalast (GER)
23.10 Köln, E-Werk (GER)
25.10 Utrecht, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (NED)
27.10 Halmstad, Halmstad Arena
3.11 Espoo, Metro Areena (FIN)
5.11 Stockholm, Waterfront
9.11 Karlstad, Löfbergs Arena
10.11 Linköping, Saab Arena
15.11 Oslo, Sentrum Scene (NOR)
16.11 Göteborg, Scandinavium.
More gigs to come!
/ Team Roxette

💖🎶 Hey it's gotta be simple 🎶 A broken heart can never keep time 🎶💔⏱ Soon we’ll be able to put together the whole Per Gessle song. Haha! Check out the snippets of Name You Beautiful at the links below! Release date … still SOON! ✌ /PP
https://www.facebook.com/wttc2018halmstad/videos/1240612736072024/
https://www.facebook.com/wttc2018halmstad/videos/1242592392540725/
Photo by Anders Roos

Don’t miss the opportunity to watch this kind of action live in Halmstad Arena later this spring. Tickets are available on our website (www.wttc2018halmstad.com/tickets) Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Harimoto Tomokazu

PER GESSLE - NEW ALBUM & TOUR UPDATE: Per informs in Hallandsposten's article about the Halland Love Stories musical that his new English album is planned to be released in August (not in May as he mentioned in an interview in January) and he hopes there will be a European tour in autumn. A bit more time for us to wait for some more magical music then & keep our fingers crossed for a tour! 🤞 /PP
Source: https://www.pressreader.com/sweden/hallandsposten/20180303/282200831420290

Today 32 years ago "Inte tillsammans, inte isär", a most lovely Swedish Per Gessle & Marie Fredriksson duet was released on an EP. 💖 /PP
Stills are from this 1985 TV show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_6pxvrEKk